East Coast Trip Day 11: Canopy Tour

Today's activity...Canopy Tour! I have to be honest, I thought this might be the activity the girls were resistant to but they surprised me and were very excited to do it.

We arrived early to sign waivers and get weighed (gulp). Thankfully, they didn't show us the weights. ;)

Our group was small, only 6 people. They usually take 8 at a time but we liked that our group would be smaller. This meant we would go through the tour a little faster, too.

Waiting to for our guides to get us geared up.

Adventure girls!

It didn't take very long to get our gear on. We wore waist harnesses, helmets, leather gloves and had some lines and trolleys.

Once we were ready, it was up the conveyer belt to the top of the hill.

At the top, we did some practice maneuvers: a zipline to practice knees up and breaking, climbing a cargo net, and crossing a "wire bridge" (I can't remember what they called it).

Kylin getting hooked up for her practice zipline.

My Mountaineer Girls after their first zipline experience.

We spent the better part of two hours in the trees. Tom really liked being in the trees. He was swinging, bouncing, leaning and laughing the whole time. By the second obstacle, Katy and Cody (our guides), were on to him and made sure to tell him when he couldn't do those things.

Meet Katy and Cody

That is one happy girl! She just did the second zipline.

Swing or walk the plank...which would you do? Mind you, you're 30 feet above the ground.

There were 4 ziplines. The longest measuring 450 feet. We ended up on a platform 50 feet above the ground. 

 How would you get down?

 The view was beautiful though. Here's how we got down....

 Once I was on the ground, I had a chance to see just how high the platform really was.

We made it down!

We had a good laugh at Alora's facial expression when we looked at this picture. :)

This was by far one of our favorite activities of the vacation. I am so glad my family did this with me. We will talk about this for years to come.